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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208705

Date of creation: 1815-04-01

Petition location: Gayhead

Selected signatures:

1. Jonathan Cuffe
2. Joel Rogers
3. Abraham Cooper
4. Dorcas Poor
5. Paul Cuffe
6. Johnson Peters
7. Abigail Rogers
8. Abigail Brown
9. Amy Wamsley
10. Patience Gershom
11. Sarah Horton
12. Sarah Henry Hazard
13. Rhoda D. Grass
14. Lydia Johnson
15. Amos Jeffers
16. Hannah Francis
17. Bulah Occooch
18. Peggy Bates
19. Hannah Mannings
20. Esther Stephens
21. Lydia David
22. Hannah Cuffe
23. Pero Peters

Total signatures: 54

Females of color signatures: 31

Males of color signatures: 23

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: proprietors of Gayhead, [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Gayhead, Gay Head, Simon Mayhew, representative, Chilmark, petitioning, act, law, Zachariah Howwoswee, Peter Tolman, lands, Barnstable, supreme judicial court, Kilborn Whitman, James Washburn, creek, fishery, Nathaniel Mayhew, William Mayhew, Benjamin Mayhew, Matthew Mayhew, Thomas Hazard, New Bedford, Benjamin Bassett, Boston, trader and retailer of ardent spirits, liquor, alcohol, Governor Gerry, Tristram Allen, appointment, Jonathan Panue, clothing, Thaddeus Cooke, house, pasture, cows, Indian corn, accounts, clay, sand, cliffs, porcelain and glass companies, Samuel Nickerson, lawsuits; includes note next to signature indicating that she is the mother of Jonathan

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, [April 1, 1815]

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.